Colgate defends the belt, 20–0, on the road at Cornell.
Where this game sits in the lineage
Colgate came in 329 days into reign #37, which began with a win over Brown, with one defense already behind it; this was its second defense. It was the last defense: Brown took the belt in the very next belt game, on October 27, 1917.
For Cornell this was its 13th shot at the belt; it had held the belt once before.
This is the only time Colgate and Cornell have met with the belt on the line.
About this game
Colgate visited Cornell on October 20, 1917, in a regular season matchup. Cornell won the game 20-0, but Colgate retained the belt as the defending champion.
Written by Claude, strictly from this site’s own record of the game — the score and what it meant for the belt. CFBD doesn’t have a box score for games this old, so nothing here is invented beyond what’s verifiably on file.
Sources Game record: College Football Data (id 9925) · This game in the downloadable dataset